Quoting: subediiI say this because even during her time as PM it wasn't even just in the papers, but prime-time TV would relentlessly mock her and all politicians. Spitting Image was coming into its height and it was thoroughly scathing of all the politicians, Thatcher most often included. Seriously, look it up, there's plenty of clips on youtube. Even at her time as PM, she was being derided thoroughly for her policies and often made out the be basically (at least my interpretation) an embodiment of the concept of "the banality of evil" in her thought processes and behaviour.

I don't need to look it up. I was there. There's a line between satire and open hatred.

Just to be clear: anyone who openly dedicates a work to people who hate, or defends that dedication, surrenders the right to complain about “hate speech”. Period. And that's what I'm exercised about here. Oh sure, “it's just a bit of fun”. So don't complain when others have fun that offends you.

Would you cover a mod about shooting abortionists, Liam? Not that I would defend that either, but would you?

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"dedicated to everyone that Thatcher hated and everyone that hated Thatcher"

*sigh* I'd just managed to calm down and come back here having forgotten what I was angry about when you publish another bit pushing this invective. I mean, if the term “hate speech” means anything, it must surely apply to the statement above. (And while I don't believe that Margaret Thatcher truly “hated” anyone, two wrongs don't make a right.) I like a bit of retro FPS action as much as the next guy, but there's never any reason to promote such mean-spirited spitefulness and hatred.

I'd say the same no matter who it was directed at, by the way. No wonder modern politics is so bitter and hateful, if we're prepared to let things like this slide just because we quietly agree with the sentiment. I said nothing under your first article, because although I find the game offensive I believe in freedom of speech and it seemed like a robust bit of satirical fun for people whose prejudices it reflects.

And even now, this comment has sat in my browser unposted for about three hours. But bringing it up again, especially with that quote, makes me think again, and wonder about what kind of site you're trying to run here. Come on... I thought you were better than this.

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Are they doing anything about the latest glibc breaking compatibility with a ton of games? Most notably, Virtual Programming's ports; none of the Saints Row games currently works on Arch, for example. Apart from SteamOS now being based on Arch, this issue is going to hit other distros over the next few months.

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So this guy remakes Quake in 13K of Javascript which loads instantly, but some major websites need megabytes in order to display a couple of hundred words of text. :dizzy:

That's not to diminish what is a hugely impressive achievement to fit any game of this type into 13K, regardless of the format. There weren't many decent games on the ZX Spectrum that didn't need the 48K expansion. Then again, it wasn't really fast enough to do much in the way of procedural generation (although some people tried it; people tried virtually everything on the Speccy), and I imagine there's a lot of that going on here.

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Quoting: senpaigamer123I wonder how long we can hold out migrations before m$ starts locking people out of the game.

I don't know if it's related, but I seem to be locked out of my Xbox account (with the same username) already. I fired my 360 up the other day (for, it must be said, the first time in ages), and it didn't auto-login as it has every time since, oh... 2008? 2009? Instead it asked me for an email address and password. Which I entered. And it said they didn't match. Well, they're the only ones I have, Microsoft.

I'm sure the Minecraft migration will go swimmingly.

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Another Orange Boxer here, although I bought it because I'd heard it could run under WINE, and never managed to get it to be playable. My account lay dormant for what seemed like an age, although it was probably only about five years.

Speaking of which, my first thought was “'Only' 18 years”? It seems like it's been around forever. It's weird that parts of it - the “Preparing to launch” dialog and the update dialog for the client itself, for example - don't seem to have changed much.

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I still can't get used to Arch being a major distro. When I started using it, hardly anyone had even heard of it.

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I picked up Just Cause 3 and 2 on sale. In that order, because I'd never played the third game, then when some aspects of it began to annoy me and I noticed the second was only £0.99, I grabbed it as well to see if my memory was playing tricks on me. (It wasn't. What's going on with the handling of the bikes in JC3?)

Despite the annoyances (it takes literally ten minutes from clicking “Play” in Steam to actually being in the game... and we laugh at five-minute loading times from cassettes in the '80s*), it's all good violent fun.

*In fairness, it's not so much the loading times as the failing-to-connect-to-the-Squenix-server times. On a single-player game. Sheesh. :angry:

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Quoting: MayeulC* It's a new thing (no prior art)
* It has industrial use (can be manufactured or used in the industry)
* It's actually an inventive and original thing. It must not be obvious to someone working in the field.

I'm a bit circumspect regarding the last one. Maybe that condition just isn't there in the U.S? It might be hard to prove in any case.

No, those three conditions are pretty much universal in patent law. The trouble is that there are so many submissions that patent registrars are just that: people who register. They don't check whether the submission meets the requirements or not, leaving that to any future lawsuit. Of course, defendants in a suit will point to the fact that the patent was awarded several years ago with no objections from anyone else...

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So, something that's been nagging at me since people started mentioning it... is he a Prince of the Republic of Korea, or the Democratic Republic of Korea?

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